C2 - Friday, August 17, 1984 - North Shore News

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WINNING FILM

THE MOVIE A Horse Called Phar Lap is a win-

ner.

On the silver screen, Phar Lap is making

money and is one of the better bets for family

entertainment this summer.

Based on the true story of
the Australian wonder horse
called Phar Lap, which raced
from 1929 to 1932, the Down
Under film takes every cliche
known to Hollywood and
combines them with a winn-
ing Walt Disney style cast,
that happens to talk with an
Aussie accent.

Phar Lap leaves the star-
ting gate in first place as the
film opens. Rough, gruff
horse trainer Harry Telford
(Martin Vaughan) has pur-
chased a scruffy, tired-
looking New Zealand bred
horse, betting that its blood
lines will urge it on to the
winner’s post. After one look
at the horse, his boss orders
him to sell it and stop wasting
time. Nothing doing, says
Harry.

By COLIN LAMONT

In the best fashion of a
heart-warming family film,
Harry wagers his own money
and future on the horse that
will go on to become an
Australian legend. Even
Harry’s wife can’t sway him
when there isn’t enough
money left to buy shoes for
the baby.

Phar Lap begins to fill out
with regular feed and care,
but Harry turns out to be the
Nasty type and works the
horse hard, vowing to kill it
or make it into a champion.

Only the stableboy, true
blue all Australian Tom
Woodcock (Tom Burlinson)
stops Harry from abusing the
horse. Tom loves Phar Lap
and protects it from all and
everything that would harm

Phar Lap runs
the distance

the would-be winner. It is
Tom that learns Phar Lap 1s
indeed a great runner if it is
held back untl the other
horses are far ahead of it.
A champion is discovered.

In a short ume, Phar Lap
is burning up every
Australian track there is. The
coveted Melbourne Cup 1s
soon sitting in the display
case Of happy Harry. But
Phar Lap’s owner and Harry
soon discover that fixing a
few bets can also make
money.

The number of villainous
plots that arise at this point in
the film would soon make a
loser out of it if it were not
for the always superb camera
work.

From Harry and Phar Lap
galloping through the
brilhant yellow sand dunes of
the outback to closeups of
Phar Lap streaking down the
track bound for glory, the
camera crew captures the real
story of this amazing horse.

Fans with art flair

THE ASIAN Centre at
U.B.C. is exhibiting a vast ar-
ray of more than 40 Chinese
Calligraphy Fans in various
sizes and colors.

The fans will be on display
daily 10 a.m.- § pm... Mon
day to Friday, and at 12 noon
-$p.m. on Saturday The ex
hibition runs from Tuesday.
August 21 to Wednesday.
August 29 at the Asian Cen
tre Auditoritum Admission ts
free and everybody is

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welcome.

Born in Chung Sang,
China, Mr Wai Yin L.au has
a broad educational back-
Reround tn Art and
Calligraphy He has held

many interesting calligraphy
and paintings exhibitions,
ewher in a group or two-man
show, on both sides of the
Pacific This Chinese
Calhgraphy Fans exhibition
is his) first solo exhibioon
overseas

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Lau’s other upcoming ex-
hibitions will include a group
show on Chinese Calligraphy
at the Chinese Cultural Cen-
tre. Another exhibition will
be held at the New
Westminster Public Library
some time in October

This exhibition is) spon
sored by the Institute of
Asian Research This event
will be an enjoyable and
memorable expenence for all
who plan to attend

The race scenes bring to
mind Chariot’s of Fire and
the stiff upper lip members of
the Australian Victoria Rac-
ing Club are duplicates of the
Olympic committee members
from the British produced
Chariots of Fire.

Finally Phar Lap is invited
to race in America and
boards the boat with guar-
dian Tom, newly promoted
from stableboy to trainer.
The spirited gelding turns out
to “be too much for its
American rivals and cleans
house in its first U.S. race.

But here is the fatal flaw in
the movie. After winning the
race, the film shows Phar
Lap dying. The cause of
death is left vague, when in
reality, Phar Lap did have
traces of poison in its system.

The film settles for an anti-

climatic ending with more
tears than rage over the kill-
ing of a great champion.

But whatever its flaws,
Phar Lap should have a long
run in theatres this summer.
Phar Lap is now playing at
the Capitol Six and Park
Royal.

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